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From: Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:28:31 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hanjg14w.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15544.1355767438.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> writes:
> There is no simple way to get setting grep-find-use-xargs to 'gnu to
> work because out of the box, emacs adds in -e to xargs (which is
> non-standard and the Mac doesn't have it).

According to the GNU grep manual, "`-e' is specified by POSIX," so grep
on any POSIX system — which, as far as I know, Macintosh is — should
have it.  So why the heck does Macintosh's grep (would we call it
"Darwin grep?") command not have it?


       reply	other threads:[~2012-12-18  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.15544.1355767438.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-18  9:28 ` Aidan Gauland [this message]
2012-12-18 10:27   ` Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X Thierry Volpiatto
2012-12-18 17:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-18 18:07       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-12-18 19:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-18 19:33           ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-12-18 20:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.15621.1355852062.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-19  8:44       ` Vagn Johansen
2012-12-19 15:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.15671.1355931355.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-20  9:57           ` Vagn Johansen
2012-12-20 16:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-17 18:03 Perry Smith

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